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Is The Emoji Movie the Worst Animated Movie Ever?

There will be spoilers.

By Christine ClosseyPublished 7 years ago 5 min read
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When I first heard they were making a movie about emojis, my first thought was, Wow, that is the laziest idea I've ever heard. I guess some guys in Hollywood looked at his phone and said, I can make a movie about this. Yet at the same time, I thought it was a big joke, like seriously we've come to making movies about silly pictures you send your friends? But yes, people, there is a movie in which emojis are the stars and the center point. The trailers for this looked like a half-assed attempt to make a Wreck It Ralph spin-off or a clone.

Then the movie comes out and surprise, it got a low rating on Rotten Tomatoes. My favorite online reviewers were calling this movie garbage, stupid and just the worst animated movie of all times. Of course, after hearing all this, I have a debate: should I really see this movie or should I stay far away from this? My head tells me that I will probably regret this, but my heart as a lover of all things bad is saying, you need this, your blog needs this, please go on the treadmill and exercise more. So against all good judgment, I saw this movie. And these were my findings...

This movie sucks!

It starts off a little promising, the animation is nice (enough). We meet Gene, a Meh emoji, who is about to go to his first day on the job of being a phone's emoji. While every emoji face is only supposed to have one expression, Gene has multiple amounts of expressions, which makes him an outcast. After the phone's owner, a kid named Alex, picks Gene as his emoji to send to a girl he likes, Gene fucks it up and makes a weird face. Then the boss of this emoji world, a creepy ass smiley face who will give you nightmares for weeks, tells him that she is going to delete him because he's a malfunction. He teams up with a high five emoji and an emo hacker emoji named Jailbreak in order to find a way to fix his malfunctions in the cloud.

Now, this may seem like a simple plot, but I can assure you that this is lazy at its best. If you have seen Wreck It Ralph and Inside Out, you've seen great movies. This movie tries to steal their good ideas and tries to make it theirs in a lazy, half-assed moral about being yourself. The beginning even reminded me of the beginning of Inside Out but lazy and half-assed. And they steal from Wreck It Ralph through out the whole movie, going to different apps, playing different games and (spoiler!) Jailbreak is actually a princess who decides not be a princess but then uses her princess powers to save him even though she hated being a princess. Though I will say in Wreck It Ralph the character Vanellope didn't know she was one until the end, but that movie had a clever way of tying in the whole story.

The jokes in The Emoji Movie are just awful and lame. I didn't laugh once in this movie, they were corny dad jokes (or basically adults trying to be hip and cool just like the teenagers). And this movie has so many product placements, I just said this movie should be called Dropbox Presents: A Facebook/Instagram with Spotify Productions: Just Dance Studios, Candy Crush Studios: Emoji Movie. They spend so much time promoting different apps and games I forgot what the fuck the movie was supposed to be about. I just thought, the second this movie is over I'm going to delete the history that I even downloaded the Candy Crush app.

The ending of the movie is the worst part about this piece of wasted good film. Yes, I will spoil this for you, but believe me, I'm saving you money and time. So I told you how Jail Break is really a princess; well, they get to the cloud and Gene tells Jail Break he loves her (in the most rushed love story that makes less sense than a Disney love story). She rejects him, Gene becomes a true Meh Emoji, he goes back to the town, where the phone is about to be deleted because the Alex kid thinks there is something wrong with it (yeah, instead of finding the problem, let's just delete the whole thing without backing it up). So in an effort to save the phone, Gene channels the only face we've seen from him and creates a multi emotion emoji. Oh and they dance at the end! No learning a lesson, no message about being yourself in a creative way, just dance at the end!

Damn, this movie was boring, lazy and just plain dumb. I've never seen a movie so lazy and half-assed in trying to teach a lesson that I wanted to watch Food Fight after this (at least that movie had an original idea). Is this the worst movie I've seen, well no... I've seen Norm of the North. But I can tell you that this movie is the so far the worst of 2017 (but I haven't seen Dark Tower yet so...). Go see Wreck It Ralph or Inside Out, because trust me, these movies are original and way better done The Emoji Movie.

You'll need five bottles of cheap wine to get through this...

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Christine Clossey

Movie lover, blogger and over all a person trying to make it to the stars!

www.theflixchix.com

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